Guy MacMillin

People often speculate about the connection between The Hound and, later, Wolfman Jack. When I interviewed Wolfman Jack, on March 7, 1988, for a newspaper column, I asked him about that. What follows is a partial transcript of the tape I made: Me: The first disc jockey that I ever heard that had the kind of appeal that you have was George Lorenz in Buffalo. Wolfman: The Hound. Me: The Hound, about 35 years ago. Now you must have been listening to him too, right? Wolfman: Oh, sure, I was just a little kid. Me: In Brooklyn? Wolfman: I was living in Brooklyn. Me: Could you hear him in Brooklyn? KBW? Wolfman: WKBW in Buffalo. Me: From the Zanzibar Lounge. Did you ever meet him? Wolfman: No, never got to meet him. He died before I got a chance to meet him. I went on to mention that The Hound was on WPOP in Hartford for a time, on tape, and Wolfman said he hadn’t known that. The Hound may have been the first syndicater, he said. Wolfman didn’t have much to say about The Hound. I sensed the subject was difficult for him, given what you might call the similarities. But he had been a listener, and an avid one, sitting with his radio on a fire-escape landing in Brooklyn, N.Y. And I have the tape to prove it.